Flickr’s new HTML code embedding – how to remove the header and footer

Flickr has altered its default embed HTML to include a header and footer, which includes Flickr branding and the title of the picture.

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Sometimes I suppose this is okay, but sometimes I just want the picture.

Fortunately it seems to be relatively easy to get rid of. In the example above:

<a data-flickr-embed="true" data-header="true" data-footer="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/danielbowen/19038778583/in/dateposted/" title="PT in the Sense8 titles 01"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/313/19038778583_3149e7e01a.jpg" width="500" height="282" alt="PT in the Sense8 titles 01"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

…remove the data-flickr-embed, data-header, and data-footer attributes of the a href, and remove the script tags, like this:

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/danielbowen/19038778583/in/dateposted/" title="PT in the Sense8 titles 01"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/313/19038778583_3149e7e01a.jpg" width="500" height="282" alt="PT in the Sense8 titles 01"></a>

The result should be just the photo, with the usual linking back to Flickr.

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It’d be nice if they made this a built-in option when generating the HTML code.

Of course, it also makes me ponder if I should be finding another photo host.

Update 2015-07-20: They seem to have modified their default embedding code a bit so the branding and picture details now only appear over the photo when you mouse over it. Not so objectionable.

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Flickr’s modified code now excludes data-header="true" data-footer="true" which presumably added the header and footer.

4 thoughts on “Flickr’s new HTML code embedding – how to remove the header and footer”

  2. daniel Post author

    That’s a good solution for you as a browser. Not so good for me as an author. Not like I’m going to tell all the visitors to my web site to turn off their Javascript!

  4. Elliott's Knob

    I pay for my flickr account and use it to manage work/personal photographs and insert them in blogs. Thus I found the ‘mouseover’ self-promotion feature quite annoying. The guidelines when I signed up were simply a linkback, so I do not see how the modiification you suggest is in any way out of line with that.

    Flickr needs to give the subscriber side the leeway that we had when we joined. There are other photo hosting services out there.

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